//------------------------------// // Prepare // Story: Destroy! // by Breakdramon //------------------------------// ‘FINALLY! Me get stupid trap off tail!’ Destroy thought, grabbing the jaws and wrenching them open before looking at the holes it left in his armor plated tail, which were slowly leaking mercury. ‘Me hate these things.’ He grumbled, before his eyes narrowed. ‘But me hate fuzzy ones who put it here more! Where fuzzy ones who put this here!’ As he roared loudly in anger, nothing moved. Not a single sound was heard. ‘Damn.’ Destroy thought, stomping his foot. ‘Me need to take anger out on SOMETHING!’ And with that single thought, his yes slowly drifted towards the trap in his hand. ‘… Me know what to do with this.’ He thought, grinning widely as he began taking the trap apart. Let it be known that while he had a brain the size of a peanut, Destroy knew quite a bit about metalworking. ‘They no know what coming.’ Destroy thought grimly, ark look in his eye. He didn’t like hurting fuzzy ones, he just wanted to play. But they had hurt him. Unacceptable. They had caused him pain, something he HATED! Unacceptable! They had hidden it within HIS treasures, within HIS HOME! UNACCEPTABLE! And for the first time in a thousand years, his voice finally worked. “M…Me DESTROY THEM!” -------------------------------------------------------- Halfway up the mountainside, Fluttershy paused. Being the most… nature oriented of the group, she heard things that most of the time, turned out to be nothing at all. Idle gossip from passing birds about good hunting grounds, or from the mosquitoes who buzzed her ears that were just silly tidbits about a different bug. But this? This was different. The roar she had just heard sounded angry, but about what she couldn’t make out. She knew it would take time to learn a whole new dialect like this, but normally she could make out at least some words from previous experience with similar species. But she had no point of reference now. It sounded like nothing she had ever encountered. Even the dragon had a base language for its roars that were more than ‘Anger’ that she could understand. Well, before it switched to equine anyways. But this… something told Fluttershy that they shouldn’t be walking up this cliff. That whatever was making that noise was to be left alone. Maybe it was her own, admittedly, cowardly nature. But no matter how much she wanted to stop it’s crying, she couldn’t. She just couldn’t get over the feeling they weren’t supposed to be there. “What the hay?” applejack asked, tilting her head. The avalanche zone had long since gone off, leaving boulders scattered everywhere. But… It looked like something had just slammed a strait path through it, leaving a flattened path and pebbles where it had been. “W… what could have caused this?” Fluttershy asked, wide eyed. “Destruction.” Twilight said assuredly. “It had to be… right?” “Ah don’t know, sugarcube,” applejack said, frowning. “Ah don’t see any giant monster tracks. You sure it came this way?” “It had to.” Twilight said, nodding. “Nothing else could have caused that damage.” ---------------------------------------------- “Are you ABSOUTELY SURE it went off?” a black haired, green eyed Pegasus stallion asked, bright green main standing up in a Mohawk. “YES Trixie is sure!” The Great and Powerful Trixie shot back. God she HATED working for this stallion! “Because the last time the enchantment on that damn cave went off it was a BAT.” The stallion said again. “Trixie recalibrated the field.” The blue unicorn shot back. “It won’t pick up anything smaller than your friend there.” She said, pointing to the silent third member of the party. An earth pony that stood even bigger then Big Macintosh. A stallion that Trixie was SURE was on some kind of enhancements. No pony got that big naturally, at a good 7 feet at shoulder. These two were professional dragon hunters, and had paid her quite a few bits to put a field over that cave. She didn’t even LIKE hunting dragons, mainly because she saw it as unfair to the wise creatures. But bits were bits, and she had fallen on rough times. “And if that damn avalanche route has gone down again?” the Pegasus asked stubborn But bits were bits, and she had fallen on rough times. “And if that damn avalanche route has gone down again?” the Pegasus asked stubbornly. “Then Fang Crusher here will take care of it!” Trixie shot back, trying to ignore the massive earth pony’s cutie mark, a depiction of a fang broken in half painted clear as day on his brown coat. “Easy.” Fang said, nodding. “And what if-“ “Oh for Pete’s sake Quick Thought, would you please BE QUIET!” Trixie growled. “If it weren’t for the fact you got magic sick then we would have been there by now. I don’t even WANT to be here.” She huffed. “Losing light.” Fang said, looking at the noontime sun. “Let’s go.” --------------------------------- It was done. His method to fight back was complete! ‘Let’s see fuzzy ones fight me now.’ Destroy thought with a chuckle. ‘Me can’t wait to see their faces.’ As if summoned by Celestia herself, he heard them. Six sets of trotting hooves. Hey had brought quite a few members to try and bring him down. It was almost flattering. Almost. As the sound got closer, he began spinning his new weapon, the thing letting out a light whoosh of displaced air whenever it hit its apex. And then, at the sight of a purple fuzzy one horn, he fired a warning shot. His weapon flew through the front of his cave, its massive chain lengthening behind it with his own Steel Type aura effecting it. --------------------------------------------- Twilight had to duck down out of sheer instinct and shock, as she watched the massive metal weapon slam into the only tree on this mountain, and viciously rip it in half as it closed of its own violation. It was the dragon trap, forcibly attached to the chain by copious amounts of high heat welding that had attached the chain to the activation switch witch had, to her surprise, being expanded out like a wind breaker. When the wind pushed against it, it snapped shut. When it was pushed back, it snapped open. This was proven as the tree was uprooted as the trap was viciously yanked back into the cave, trailing bits behind. And then, the terrifying roar came. “DESTROY!”